Handle and connected part



C. A. BAILEY.

HANDLE AND CONNECTED PART. APPLICATION FILED mac. 2 4, 191's.

31,,4@3,3'75 Patented Jan. 10,1922. Pr. W9

s e W A CHARLES A. BAILEY, OF CRSOJEEVJELL, CGNLJECTIG'UT.

HANDLE AND CQNNECTED PART.

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Application filed December 24, 1919.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Crmnnns A. BAILEY. a citizen of the United States. residing in Cromwell in the county of lllliddlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented newand Improved Handle and Connected. Part, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of de* vices above named, and an object of my invention, among: others, is to provide a frame including a handle that shall be extremely simple in construction and that may be produced at a minimum cost.

One form of a structure embodying my invention and in the construction and use of which the objects herein set out, as well as others, may be attained, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank embodying my invention and from which a toy pistol frame may be formed.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of said blank formed to U-shape as a step in the construction of a toy pistol frame.

Figure 3 is a side View of said toy pistol frame with parts broken away to show con struction.

My invention embodies the formation of a handle or grip part and a supporting part therefor, and it may enter into the construc tion of handles for different devices, and while it is illustrated and described herein in connection with the formation of the bodyand handle for a toy pistol, as it is especially adapted for such a structure, yet it will be understood that it may be equally applied to other devises.

My invention contemplates the formation of the handle or grip part and its support ing part or body from sheet metal, and preferably from a single piece. This structure is made from a blank or blanks cut and stamped to proper shape, such blanks being preferably obtained from a strip of sheet metal of a width practically the same as that of the blanks to be produced therefrom.

Such a blank, when intended for a toy pistol and when composed of a single piece of metal, may embody a narrow barrel projection 7 at one end extending from a wider body part 8 of the blank and a handle portion 9 at that end of the blank opposite the barrel projection. Notches 10 terminating in slits 11 occur between the body and handle portions of the blank thus creating a narrow neck uniting said parts, which are Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. in, 1922.

Serial No. 347,246. I

thus separated to an extent to permit each part, after it has received substantially its particular form, to be moved by bending the structure so that both parts will be brought into cooperative relation each with respect to the other to impart the proper form to the structure as a whole. A bulbous enlargement 12 at the center of the handle portion of the blank next to the body part thereof, may be obtained as by forming a depression in one side of the blank in any suitable'manner and other enlargements 13 may be ob-' tained in a similar manner at opposite sides of the handle portion 9 of the blank to sub sequently serve as grips. The blank thus far described may be formed by the operation of dies, thus preparing such blank for a succeeding step in the operation.

In this succeeding step the entire blank above described including the handle and body portions is bent into U-shape'in cross section, as shown in Figure 20f the drawings. The sides of the U-shaped body part or casing 14 and the sides of the U-shaped handle 15 are relatively positioned, as by spreading or otherwise that the adjacent ends of one part, as the casing, will pass into the opening ietween the sides of the other partas the handle, when the structure is partially folded by bending; on the dotted line 16 shown in Figure 1 to bring the handle and body parts into such cooperative relation as to give the desired form to the structure as a whole. In this bending operation the handle is located at the angle de sired with respect to its supporting part and it may be secured in this position in any suitable manner.

The structure thus far described comprises a barrel projection upon the blank which projection forms a barrel 17 in the completed pistol frame, but this projection and barrel may be dispensed with if desired, in which case that part of the blank comprising the barrel projection will be of the same width as the body part thereof.

The pistol frame thus formed may be considered as a complete structure, or, if desired, the recess between the side parts of the U-shaped structure may be closed as by a closing strip 18 that may have a fastening spur 19 at one end to pass through an opening in the folded part of the U-shaped structure, as shown in Figure 3. This closing 110 strip will be bent to correspond to the form of the edge of the frame as shown in Figure 3 and if desired, at a point intermediate its ends, this strip may be bent to form a trigger guard 20, 'as'show'n in Figure 3 of the drawings. This strip may be provided with lips 21 at opposite edges between which lips the edges of the frame and handle may be" received. r

In accordance with the provisions of the 1 patent statutes, I have described'the principles ofoperation of my invention, together with the deyic e which I now consider to representv the best embodiment thereof; but Idesireto have it understood that the device shown isfonly illustrative, and that the invention may be carried out by other means. I claimp I 1. A structure comprising a body part and a gripparteach formed into its particular positely disposed independently formed sides, said sides of the frame and of the handle being connected by a seamless portion of said sheet of metal that extends along the top of the frame and down along the back of the handle closing said top of the frame and back of the handle.

3. A structure comprising a body part and a grip part each formed into U-shape and both formed from a single piece of sheet metal comprising a connecting portion between the body and grip parts, said connecting portion being bent crosswise of the structure to locate the body and grip parts in cooperative angular relation.

4L. A structure comprising a body part and a grip part each formed into'its particular shape and both formed from a single piece of sheet metal, said parts being located in cooperative angular positions'assumed in the complete structure by bending the material between said parts, and means for securing said parts together to maintain such cooperative angular relation.

5.. A structure comprising a material connecting the body and grip parts being bent to cause th two parts to be brought into cooperative angular relation each with the other, and an inclosing strip 'extendlng'along the outer edges of the sides CHARLES A ..BAI EY;

body part and V V 'a grip part each formed'into U-shape, the 

